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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08
A WHOLESALE MURDER.
After Killing His Wife, Child and
Brothsr-in.law, a Gambler
Suicides.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. ga terri
BILE tragedy wasdiscovered yesterday
in the western part of this city, Mrs.
Mary Bruner, the mother of Mrs.
Charles b. Brownfield, living at No.
1922 West Chestnut street, made a
call at the residence of her daughter,
about 10 o'clock. The door was
locked, and no one answered the bell.
She gained access to one-story frame
cottage, however, where her eyes
met horrible sight. The body of
Chas. Brownheld, her son-in-law,
was suspended by strap attached
to the Intel. Back of this on a bed
lay the body of William f. Bruner,
brother of Mrs. Brownfield, with
his throat cut from ear to ear On
another bed were the forms Of his
wife and 3-year.old child, with their
heads almost severed from their
bodies. A razor, with which the
aw full deed had been committed, lay
near by. The bed clothing was
drenched with blood. The deed had
evidently been committed Thursday
night, for the following letter, dated
6 80 a. m, and written by the MUIR
derer in clear hand, was found.
"To all whom it may concern:
al, Charles B. Brownfield, MUIR
dered my dear wife and baby, also
W. +. Bruner, my brother-in-law. l
killed my wife and baby because l
was tired of life and did not want
them left penniess in the world and
no one to care for them. My cause
for being tired of life is gambling.
Now let my brothers and friends
take warning. killed w. f. Bruner
because 1 did not think he was fit to
live, and now l will make an attempt
on my life, so good-by my father,
brother, friends and relations. All
take warning. Good-by.
CHARLES b. BRowNFIELD."
| Brownfield was about thirty year,
old and very dissipated. His father
is magistrate and highly respected
He was boot and shoe salesman
and was at the time of his death il
the employ of Rosenberg, Flexner &
Co., and was considered one of the
best statesmen in his line in the city
He had been married six years t
Miss Alice Bruner, of Washington
Ind. His married life had appar
emily been happy, and his only vict
had been gambling. His crime il
the bloodiest ever committed il
Louisville, and it has produced I
profound sensation of horrol
throughout the city.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

The Christmas number of Scrib.
ner'S Magazine will contain double
the usual number of Illustrations
every one of which has been made
from a drawing by some well-known
and expert artist. A few Of those
represented are Will H. Low, Will
liam Hole, A. r. s. A, r. Swain Gift
ford, Howard Pyle, E. II. Blashfleld,
j. w. Alexander, George Foster
Barnes, f. Hopkinson Smith and f.
S. Church. The price will remain
the same as usual 25 cents.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

Madame Goldschmidt, a native Of
Sweden, known to fame and the mu-
steal world as Jenny Lind, died at
London, on the 1st inst, in the Goth
year Of her age. She was the queen
of song some 40 years ago, but re-
tired from the stage after her mar
riage in America in 1852, though she
sometimes reappeared in charity
concerts. She leaves large fortune.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

There is a factory in Bridgeport,
Conn, that uses 10000 gallons Of
fresh beef blood a day in making
buttons, combs, jewelry, etc. A fac
tory at Trenton, N. j. makes door
knobs out of the same material
There are also other queer uses to
which blood may be put. For in
stance the Governor of Ohio has I'M
dertaken at this late day TO msnufsc-
ture Republican votes cut of the
blood shed on battlefields quarter
of a century ago.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

Nashville was visited by a fire
that destroyed 100000 worth Of
property on the morning Of the 4th
inst. Weakley & Warren's store and
several adjoining establishments
were burned, and disastrous con-
Migration was narrowly averted.
Several parties were injured by fall
ing walls but no lives were lost. The
property losses were partially COW
cred by sos, coo insurance.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08
Halls

There is more Catarrh in this section OF the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For great many years Doctors
pronounced it local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly falling to
cure with local treatment pronounced 1t incu-
rable. Science has proven Catarrh to be
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls CatarTh
Cure, manufactured by F. j. Cheney 4 Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, il the only constitutional cure
now on the market. It is taken internally
in doses from ten drops to teaspoonful at
acts directly upon the blood and mucuS sur
faces OF the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case 1t fails to cure. Send for
circular and testimonials. Address,
FL. CHENEY CO., Toledo. o.
E0- Sold by Druggists, rs cents.
oatarrh Cure.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

The election to he held in New
York to-day is one of very great Inn
portance to both parties. If the
Democrats win, Cleveland's re-elec-
ton is assured if the Republicans
triumph, then the gentleman from
Maine will have another chance next
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

Rev. Chas. A. Berry, of Wolver-
hampton, Eng, is to to be called to
the psstorate of Plymouth Church as
Mr.. Beecher's successor. He 10 80
years Of age and has been preaching
for IL years. Nothing but imported
gospel it seems will satisfy the swell
saints of Brooklyn.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

A fight with the Grow Indians
took place in Montana Saturday, in
which Sword Bearer, the leader of
the hostiles, and three or four braves
were killed on one side and Corporal
Chas. Simpson killed and two sol
diers wounded on the other side. The
Indians were put to flight.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

The post-office department has Gre
ated a good deal of dissatisfaction
among business men by ruling against
the printing of advertisements on the
wrappers of unsealed mail matter OF
the second, third and fourth classes.
Congress will be asked to give relief
from the obnoxious ruling.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

Four dynamite bombs were found
in the cell of Louis Lingg, one of the
condemned Chicago anarchists, last
Sunday. They were made of pieces
of gas pipe plugged at both ends and
we're evidently intended to be used
by the anarchists for taking their own
lives to cheat the gallows. Gov.
Oglesby has not extended clemency to
the condemned men and the impress
sion Is almost universal that he will
let the law take its course and end
the earthly careers of the red-handen
next Friday.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

Col. Wallace Gruelle has sold the
Leitchfield Gazette TO T. B, Wilson
and retired from the newspaper bus
mess. He does not indicate his in
tentions for the future.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

Reports that Mr.. Jefferson Davis
was at deaths door at Macon, Ca,
proved to be grossly exaggerated.
lie had slight attack from which
he quickly recovered and is now as
well as usual.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

Louisville Tobacco Market.
[By Glover 1 Durrett.

ny OlONci q DuIAcbtsI
Sales on our market for the week
just closed amounted to 1856. hhds.
with receipts for the same period of
1853 hhds. Sales on our market since
January lst, amount to ll4,l02 hhds.
The offerings of dark tobacco during
the week have been smaller than usu-
al and we are able to note an improve
ment of about SOC per 100 during the
week. The following quotations
fairly represent our market for dark
tobacco.
Trash so so to 3 so.
Common to medium Tugs So so to
5 90.
Good lugs IS 90 to 6 90.
Common to Medium leaf So so to
6 so.
Good to fine leaf Sc so to s so.
Leaf of extra length 81 80 to 8 so.
Wrappery leaf 80 80 to l6 90.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

Old papers for sale by the hundred,
cheap, at this office.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08
coLoRED.

VIM. Low to Mollie Rawlins.
Chas. Chappell 10 0pholla woodbridge.
Dennis Norman to Serena Dade.
Dick Bronaugh 20 Mary Mosley.
Geo. Dulin 10 Georgeann western.
beverley Fleming to Agnes Moore.
jesse Caldwell TO Ellen Nance.
A. j. Bacon 10 Josie Rlchey.
Elijah Day 10 Georgia sebree.
Caleb Eor,son TO Mary Radford.
Webb Pollard to Fannie Green.
Julius Carter 10 Lizzie Torian.
John Coleman TO Rosa Jones.
Henderson Bradley TO Alice Coleman.
Pompey Jameson to Plnkey Lloyd.
Lark Spurln TO Eliza Sims.
Jack Campbell ~ Sue Roscoe.
Il. Brewer TO Julia Redd.
John Pluchsn to Honey Williams.
Z mblned total ... ......................
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08

Mr.. Il. o. Hall has assumed edito-
rial control of the Clarksville Chron-
ola
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08
OCTOBER WEDDINGS.

Al Pyle, 10 Laura white.
Il, N. Fruit TO Mamie A. Durham.
Thos. C. Hogan TO Martha A. Crick.
Chas. A. w icks to Emma Wilson.
Jno. ID. Jones 10 Eunice johnson.
Uhas. II. Bonte to Elizabeth T. Tut.
L. d. Potter 10 Sallie A. Tuck.
j. Il. Parson TO Martha Hammonds.
Robt. Graham TO Matt b Richardson.
r. s. McGehee to Liz Cox.
X. Nj. Hourse 90 Ida X. Morrison.
A. j. Renshaw 10 NJ. l.. Olvey.
Ike II. Cayce to Josie Scates.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-08
FARMS In ILLINOIS
VERY CHEAP!

JOHN @. HALL, of MeLeausboro, Illinois.
WIN sell improved or unimproyed land at great
bargains One third cash or good notes; balance
years time. TITLES perfect acres for only ksO ~
acres for $40; 80 acres for 500; s. for sian; 10
acres for ssOl; fine farm 40 acres sun Nov u the
time TO buy Write 10 him at once. or and see the
lands. Never such chances for homes ~ he onerA
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-16

acted from the people. Thus, at the
end of two years, we are sensibly
feeling the benefits to business and
public policy of reform (?) Demo
cratic Administration. Really, I'm
Gle Sam is so seriously i'll from his
nauseous dose of Democracy that it
is highly probable an extra session
of Congress will have to be called
early next fall to administer an an
tidote.
The recent death of Mai. Ben
Perley Poore, the pioneer Washing
ton newspaper correspondent, re-
moved a familiar and prominent
figure from the Capital. For forty
five years he has been intimately as
ISOLATED with the great statesmen of
the country, from Clay and Calhoun
TO Blaine and Lamar-he having
been for twenty-five years clerk of
the Senate printing committee, years
after he had become leading Jour
nalist.
Decoration Day was observed
with unusual eclat,-the soldiers of
the National Drill acting as escort
to the Grand Army of the Republic.
For the first time, tbs grave of that
gallant hero and patriot, John A.
Logan-he who instituted this glo-
rious day-was buried by loving
hands In a mass of beautiful flowers,
only five months after he had sur
rendered his noble soul.
There is still much speculation as
to who will fill the vacancy on the
Supreme Bench. The place is by
common consent conceded to the
south. There is but one certainty
about it; Garland, the Cabinet mem
Der, who long since was promised
the first vacancy, will not get it,
since his corrupt connection with
the Pan Electric Telephone Com
psny has been disclosed, for he now
says he will not have it, which
means he cannot get it, as the Pres
ident, with all his bulldog courage,
could not afford to run the risk of
wrecking his Administration by
decking the Supreme Court with
such malodorous Garland
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-16
ASTONISHING SUCCESS

1t is the duty of every person who
has used BoSchee's German Syr,4D
to let its wonderful qualities be
known to their friends in curing
Consumption, severe Coughs, Group,
Asthma, Pneumonia, and in fact all
throat and lung diseases. No per-
son can use it without Immediate re-
lief. Three doses will relieve any
case, and we consider it the duty
of all Druggists to recommend it
to the poor, dying consumptive, at
least to try one bottle, as 10000
dozen bottles Were sold last year,
and no one case where it failed was
reported. Such a medicine as the
German Syrup cannot be too wide
ly known. Ask your druggist about
it. Sample bottles to try sold at 10
cents. Regular size 70 cents. Sold
by all druggist and dealers, in the
United States and Canada.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-16
WASHING TON LETTER.
From our REGULAR correspondent.

From our regular correspondent.
The soldiers of the National Drill
have folded their tents and marched
away to the strains of their own
thrilling music, and in consequence,
the Capital City is not so gay as last
week, and many of our bonny bellies
" ,th lovelorn signs and misty eyes,
pine over the lost hopes and oppor-
tunities for conquest of those few
fleeting days, while numbers of the
visiting troops have been totally
yanquished by the charms of the
fair ones. Except in a financial
sense, the Drill was quite successful.
The deficit is from $4,000 to $l2,-
600. The managers counted on an
average attendance of 10000, though
it was 5000 or less. Some propose
to make the Drill permanent by
having one every year, and it is
hoped the project will msterialize
If there be another, we trust the
Confederate Democratic south will
send liberal, progressive men here
instead of the narrow minded, pro
yincial numskulls who considered
themselves such superior beings
that they felt it pollution to march
in the same military procession with
the hated though harmless "nigger,'
and therefore dropped out of line.
Able tinanciers, with good reason,
predict financial crisis when the
movement Of the present crops be-
gin, based upon the fact that within
the past year the New York banks
have increased their rate of interest
from . per cent. to 5 per cent, while
their reserve surplus has very largely
decreased, and also upon the further
facts, that the immense surplus in
the Federal treasury continues to
rapidly accumulate, without any re-
lief from the burdsnsoms taxes ex.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-16
The Iron Briga de.
HOW IT GOT ITS NAME.

From the Lancaster Teller of June 9th.
Ny Dear SRI am urged by
letter and otherwise to give public
ity to an incident which to my mind
solvee the mooted problem as to the
origin of the name Iron Brigade"
given to Gen. Sherman's Brigade in
the late war of the rebellion. | no.
tice that there are about as many
organizations claiming the distinc-
tive title of Iron Brigade as there
are other organizations and staff
officers claiming that old John
Burns, of Gettysburg, fought with
them, and that they gave him the
gun to fight with. have also
noticed that there have been many
different theories advanced as to the
probable origin of the title "Iron
Brigade" given to Gen'l Gibbons
Brigade, composed of at first the I'd
Wis, 9th Wis, 9TH Wis. and 10th
Indiana, with Battery "B," the pet
of the Brigade, and as much a factor
as any one of the above regiments,
and is SO accredited and honored.
| venture through your columns to
give my theory and the basis on
which it is founded.
In 1868 ORG, | cannot give the
date, Gent Geo. b. Mcclellan was
given the grandest reception in the
city of Philadelphia, Pa, his old
home, that was ever given to any
American citizen in the United
States; at least it vas so considered
at the time. | received a card of
invitation, and having always been
a great admirer of the General, |
went out from Washington, d. c.,
with many Senators, Congressman
and army officers, and many of
those fellows that | always thought
whipped the Rebellion,-i. e., private
soldierS--and while in Philadelphia
/ sought and readily obtained an
interview with the General at his
rooms in the continental Hotel"
General Mcclellan made many in
quiries about Generals C'lbbon,
Fairchild, and others of the "Iron
Brigade" and narrated a CONVEX
sation between himself and Gen
eral Joe Hooker. The facts
elected in this conversation con-
WINGED me that that was the time
and place our Brigade received the
distinctive title of "Irou Brigade"
The General said that at the battle
of South Mountain, Md, his head
quarters were so located that he
could see along the pike to the
gorge in the mountain, and General
Hooker came dashing down the pika
road to his headquarters to get a
more explicit knowledge of some
order. General Mcclellan said the
following brief conversation then
took place:
81 asked Hooker, What troops
those were advancing on each side
of the pike near the gorge, under
that murderuus direct and enflading
fire'?"
"Hooker said That was Gibbons
Brigade of Western men, from Wis
consin and Indiana"
81 remarked that, They must be
made of Iron'?"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-16
After Ora duation, what?

Summer is coming, says the New
York LHaH and Express, and the
annual food of girl graduates is
about ready to deluge the land
Commencement-day, with its white
gowns, its beriboned essay, and its
touching sense of the high aspir-
atoms to be reached in after life is
a charming occasion. But after
graduation, what then?
Boast as much as you like about
the progress Of the girl, she is after
all rather helpless being still, and
however attractively satisfactory
helplessness in women may be 10
poetry or in theory, in actual life it
is far from being the happiest lot in
the world. Sometimes more than
two-thirds, dc is sometimes put as
high as four. fifths,) Of all the adult
women in New York are wage
esrners, but what does their need
of dollars amount to- A majority
of them average less than 81 day
ana SO or SIS a week marks the
limit Of the ambition of the ordinary
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-16
SEEMING for fish in the Peca-
tonica.

Notwithstanding the fact that the
law is very rigid and the penalty
for violating severe, SEEMING in Peca-
tonica is being done. Last Sunday
team of gray horses was hitched
to wagon containing all the re-
quistos for a successful seining
siege. A number of men who claim
to be law abiding citizens com
posed the party who did the unlaw.
full and damnable work. At time
when the river is filing up with the
best of fish this work of SEEMING is
extremely detrimental. We would
advise parties to go slow in seining
as a close watch is kept of suspic-
ious characters DarIjRgt0n Demo-
Crdt.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-16
Legal Notices
Notice 10 Crea,,or

STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY con-.
y Iowa County-In Probate. NVpErFOg
deceased. Aipa J. Shor
Letters OF administration on the est.tao,,.
J. Short, deceased having been iSs1Ss ~ lA8a
Short. Neu 70 J0hr
II is ordered, that six months from
this date be, and are hereby alIowad1 ~ = ate,
creditors of said Ralph ]. Short. DO tie
present their claims for examination and sS .
ance. "uU sll0s.
ordered further. hat the claims and d..
of all persons against said deceased ba te.nelds
ed ana adj usted by this court at regnlss mn
thereof, 10 be held at the court bo,,sseS Tern
village of Dodgeville, in said county. on IN ~ te
Tuesday of January, A. d. 1888; and tbst s'ie mn
thereof be given by publication OF this iLoues
four weeks successfully in the Minersi 'i q l0
Tribune. weekly newspaper pDblisbes rom
city OF Mineral Point. in said county. ~ he
By the Court
JOHN Il. JONES.
na,.a noa,,-.,,,. yu,. County Judge
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-16
w omen may b,

salary-worker. Women may be
selfsupporting, but very few, com
paratively speaking have reached
that point where they look beyond
subsistence to a comfortable COM
petence, as men reckon such mat-
ters, or to getting rich.
1t is true enough in way. that
the range of women's industries is
broadening. Business circles, in
the city at least, recognize very
little distinction nowadays between
what is properly womens work and
mems work, except the all important
dividing line Of pay. GO into any
large manufactury, whether Of wear
ing apparel, household furnishings.
or articles connected distinctly with
mems labor, and some where about
the building working with needle
or brush, tending a machine, keep.
ing books, manipulating type
writer, you will find a woman at
work. On the other hand, start
any new industry, | care not how
specially adapted to women's nimble
fingers or keen eye sight or in
sight, and if there is "money IN it"
the woman comes into immediate
competition with man. The art
of earning a living for man or
woman either is one that involves
a good deal of thought and study,
more of each with every year that
goes by.
With the higher class of indus
tries to which women aspire the
the case is much the same as with
the lower. Teaching is miserably
overcrowed, and except under un
usual circumstance is the most un
satisfactory of stats to lean on.
Journalism is uncertain and not an
easy profession to get a start 10.
Literature, without the highest
order OF talent, is hopeless. Lee.
turing has passed its prime. Pub
he reading is going the same way.
Taken collectively the difference
between men aud women-ald it is
an infiuite difference is compre
hended in five syllables, organization
What is nation, State, city, a
the public school system,
any modern institution whatever2
A corporation of men in which
women are disconnected units.
What are business firms aud indus
trial concerns of every discriptionl
Organizations of two or more men
with rarely woman partner among
them.
Women have done much, but it is
as well not to exploit their success
too loudly till thew have done more.
They need business education in
business principles, regular hours
of work, the same thoroughness that
a New England housekeeper puts
into baking aud cleaning, that a
society girl devotes to dressing and
her mother throws into keeping up
the round OF calls. They need
above everything else faith in them
selves and business courage.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-16

BETWEEN nine and ten O'Clock
yesterday morning our quiet village
was started by the report that boy
had fallen into a mining shaft and
Pick and Cad reported hastened
to the spot and learned that Willie
Higiny, the fifteen year old son of
John Highly of this village while
picking mineral with several young
companions around the old shafts on
the elevator grounds, stepped upon the
covering of an old shaft known as
the Hunt pump shaft and that the
covering which was old and rotten
had suddenly given way and the boy
had fallen to the bottom of the
shaft which was about seventy feet
in depth. His young companions
gave the alarm and large crowd
soon gathered, windlass was
hastily procured from an adjacent
mine and Fred G. Richmond de-
cended to the bottom of the shaft
and securely lashed the body of the
boy to the ropes he was soon brought
again to the surface amidst the
breathless excitement of the people.
DR. G. G. Gratiot was soon on hand
and examined the boys injuries
and found scalp wound some four
inches in length and also bruises up
on the body. The injuries are not
as serious as was expected and he
will no doubt recover in few days.
Pick aa9 Cad.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-16

THERE are advertised letters at
the post-ofice, June II, 1897, for
Mrs. Ell Wood, Thos. Lee Russell,
VIM. Thomas, Cornelius Wardle, A.
j. Tomlinson, Herman Vandrey for
eign), William Corny, Henry Klein,
William Lemek, M. Martin, F. NJ.
Powes, Miss Alice Jennings. The
persons calling for above will please
say advertised" and give date of this
notice. GEO. CRAWFORD, =. III.